A real freelancer

Tue Nov 11, 2003 6:04 pm by Tawakalna

if it's in jest, grom, why do we still say ten bob? hmmm? and i bet u still think in feet and inches don't u? and yes u r right, it was 1971, i remember the day well, me mam took me down to the paper shop to get my copy of the Beano and TV21 (i was 7) and there they were! all the comics had the prices on. gone was the traditional 3d (thats pence) and there was the new price 5 NEW pence. bah! no more thre'penny bits, loved those. All the decimalisation was designed just to rip us off and charge more, so the new money wasn't the same at all despite what Ted Heath said, because he'd devalued the pound in order to go decimal. rotten new money. course i was dead excited at spending the new coins, i was too young to get me hands on notes, besides u could buy a lot for a pound note back then, and if u had a fiver in your pocket u were flush! also dinner money became really complicated, i recall.

by eck when ah were a lad us mam used to give us half a crown fert saturday matinee at the picture place, ah'd tek me brother, us ut get bus dahn't tut town fer a tuppence return, get some snappin' fromt tuck shop, play ont penny slots fer abit int arcade, get int flix, have some cartoons, a b-film, maint feature, and some Children's Film Foundation series (Billy's Time Bike

) play marbles or conkers with us m8s then get bus 'ome and still av some change to give to us mam. ee them wert days (it's true actually) bit different going to the pictures now, isn't it ff!

and lo! I managed to hijack the thread AND keep it on topic!

I wqnder if that suffivces to get me out of sS' capital penalty for thread hijacking!

Edited by - Tawakalna on 11-11-2003 18:40:10

Tue Nov 11, 2003 6:48 pm by Arcon

good save.

i hate those stories: "when i were a lad, my mum used to give us a pound, we'd go out, buy a house, a car, a holiday, have a slap up dinner in the most expensive resteraunt in town and still have enough money for chips and a bus ride home"

wel LAR DE "bloody" DAR mr frenchman

"it has to start somewhere, it has to start sometime, what better place than here, what better time than now"

Tue Nov 11, 2003 7:14 pm by freighter fighter

im back

was a short 5 minute interview, and i was asked what im looking to get into, how much notice i need and the length of the freelancing ( 1 day - 1 week )

and to tell you how much im worth...50 quid a day

i also have a new update for sS : Wolf demon, the scapegoat of off topic

Edited by - freighter fighter on 11-11-2003 19:16:40

Tue Nov 11, 2003 7:21 pm by gromit

lol. but you have made me think of two things though...firstly pound notes...aah! It was just fantastic having 10 of them in your pocket....it was a real wad, something to be proud of. They need to bring them back, they really do.

And the second...The Childrens Film Foundation...I totally forgot about that bugger! Those films were awful even then, but I loved them anyway....I seem to remember a particular one about a group of kids at a "haunted house", dropping their choppers outside (thats a bike for the dirty minded ignorami - is that a word?) and fleeing through woods in their skin tight tank-tops and flared jeans....aaah dem were da days....

...when you direct films ff, you should watch them for a little inspiration.

(did ya see what i did there??! did ya?!

)

Tue Nov 11, 2003 7:26 pm by freighter fighter

they stoped doing pound notes in '83 ( when i was born )

Tue Nov 11, 2003 7:42 pm by Tawakalna

I've still got some, I keep em safe for when (eventually) the entire world realises it was better to be British all along and adopts our currency, then we can go back to imperial weights and measures and eevrything will be alright again! woohoo!

really i do keep some, i thought the Isaac Newton £1 note was the prettiest we ever had. i got paid in £1 notes for the first "real freelance" job i ever had (yes he does it again!

)

Tue Nov 11, 2003 7:48 pm by freighter fighter

do what taw?

Tue Nov 11, 2003 8:33 pm by BlazeME

Im not joining sides here

Im half British, half American.

Tue Nov 11, 2003 9:06 pm by Tawakalna

what if u were half american and half british?

Tue Nov 11, 2003 10:20 pm by gromit

strictly speaking, unless you're half cherokee, doesn't that make you 100% british?

'scuse my ignorance if I'm wrong

Tue Nov 11, 2003 10:32 pm by Tawakalna

ah no, what if u were a hyphenated-american? or what if u were from one of those spanish (or was it french?) provinces that were incorporated into the States AFTER Independence, then u wouldn't have been British to start with would u? see my point, grom?

Tue Nov 11, 2003 10:38 pm by Arcon

if he were half american half british, he would be alphabetically correct

i have a prototype £2 coin i'm keeping hold of. Back when there was no such thing it was brought out as a commemorative coin or something like that. its back home in a box...unless my dad has pilfered it. For some reason my dad has a big box in his room full off £2 coins. he's up to something but i cant figure out what.

Incidentally, ive never had a freelancer job (not as good

)

"it has to start somewhere, it has to start sometime, what better place than here, what better time than now"

Tue Nov 11, 2003 10:48 pm by Nickless V2

@Grom:

strictly speaking, unless you're half cherokee, doesn't that make you 100% british?

Or half Dutch

Just reading back to Taw's monetairy reply:

guineas

Not the pigs, right?

farthings

So, a guy with many of these would be...Stinkin' filthy rich?

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Edited by - Nickless V2.0 gold on 11-11-2003 22:49:18

Tue Nov 11, 2003 10:51 pm by Tawakalna

well u'd need an awful lot of farthings to be filthy stinking rich!

(btw they were a lovely coin, had a little wren on the obverse, ever so pretty)

Tue Nov 11, 2003 11:45 pm by freighter fighter

you would need to make a line as deep and as long as the spanish main to be rich with farthings ( im in a piratey mood today, dunno why )

<edit> i was given a half penny as part of my change up town, so there are a few of them floating around still

Edited by - freighter fighter on 11-11-2003 23:54:32

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